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Yes the Netbios over TCP/IP is enabled. The problem is with the way 08 does it shares and networking. I have a second 08 server that is working just fine without any problems. Unfortunately I did not build these therefore I don't have the steps taken to break it.

We have multiple 2008 machines without issues. The one issue we had was that we had two NICs one needed Register with DNS unchecked and NetBios over TCP\IP enabled. Once we disabled the second NIC we did an ipconfig /registerdns.

It appears that this network has had a lot of fingers in it and we have to decided to scrap and rebuild/ start fresh!!! I appreciate your input today, but from what I have found today with this 1 of many problems I will get this fixed only to tackle another nightmare do to unknowledgable people installing servers.
Mikel

This tutorial will walk an individual through the steps necessary to join and promote the first Windows Server 2012 domain controller into an Active Directory environment running on Windows Server 2008.
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